I believe it is. Because I got it and I didn't preorder or have the CE. This might answer one of your questions though.
http://kotaku.com/5457584/mass-effect-2-has-dlc-and-helmet-issues
Down in the yellow there somethings you can do. I don't know what your actual Cerberus Network code is but if you have the numbers they list you could fix it by this.









